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Re: The Moon

Posted: 18 Jul 2018, 08:12
by marco
marco wrote: 10 Apr 2010, 14:57 I checked Ripa's Iconologia and found out that the white girdle is, since the times of ancient Rome, a symbol of Virginity (a moral attribute of Diana).
Several years after this post, I stumbled upon the attached drawing of the Virgo constellation.
Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Typ 43, Tabula stellarum fixarum, ca. 1425, Vienna?


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